ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GHETTO
From Italian, perhaps shortened from borghetto, diminutive of borgo settlement outside a walled city; or from the Venetian ghetto the medieval iron-founding district, largely inhabited by Jews.
10 QUOTES WITH «GHETTO»
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I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.
I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
To me, I'm the epitome of what a ghetto child is: I was raised by a single parent; I stayed in apartments my whole life; I don't think I've ever cut the grass.
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.
It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto anymore, but every time I go back, I'm still seeing the same things that I lived.
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GHETTO»
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ghetto in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ghetto and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
When her mother and father figure, a Brooklyn crime lord, are gunned down, eighteen-year-old Kanika heads south to attend college while moving in with her birth father who is angry and unpredictable.
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.
Photographs by Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin.
Oliver Chanarin, Adam Broomberg, 2003
This edition includes Jeremy Sams' songs and music from the play, as well as extracts from the original ghetto diary.
Yehoshuʻa Sobol, David Lan, 1989
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Making the Second
Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation.
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Between Good and
Ghetto: African American Girls and ...
With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence.
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How East New York Became a
Ghetto
How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the ...
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Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
We come to understand the day-to-day realities of globalization through the stories of entrepreneurs from Africa carting cell phones in their luggage to sell back home and temporary workers from South Asia struggling to earn money to bring ...
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Memoirs of a Warsaw
Ghetto Fighter
Recounts the struggle against the Nazi takeover of Warsaw and provides an account of the author's activities as head courier for the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting Organization.
Śimḥah Rotem, Barbara Harshav, 1994
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Little
Ghetto Girl: A Novel
After a successful life in the drug game, twenty-one-year-old Kisa Kane plans to retire -- settle down, find a good man, and raise a family of her own.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GHETTO»
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ghetto is used in the context of the following news items.
Retirement flats plan sparks "grey ghetto" fear in Tadworth
PLANS for a new retirement home complex have pitched Tadworth residents against each other, with some saying it will create a "grey ghetto" ... «Surrey Mirror, Jul 15»
Plans for Middlewich 'ghetto' put on hold
PLANS to build what has been described as a 'purpose-built ghetto' in Middlewich have been put on hold. Cheshire East Council's strategic ... «Middlewich Guardian, Jul 15»
Councillor attacks 'ghetto' plans for Alsager
Cllr Derek Bebbington regarding a proposal for Dunnocksfield Road: "There's no gardens at the front, nothing and it's just a complete ghetto.". «Crewe Chronicle, Jul 15»
A child's life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Polish-Jewish doctor and educator Janusz Korczak was famous throughout Europe as director of the Warsaw Ghetto orphanage and an ... «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
'Ghetto Cinderellas' relish Wimbledon spotlight
Serena and Venus Williams will clash at Wimbledon for the first time in six years today, but the sisters' ferocious appetite for success suggests it ... «Gulf Times, Jul 15»
Green movement must escape its 'white, middle-class ghetto', says …
The environmental movement needs to escape the “white, middle-class ghetto” and engage more fully with the UK's ethnic and working class ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
'Urban Disintegration and Ghetto Civil War': Geraldo Fires Back at …
For a while now, Geraldo Rivera has said he believes that “hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last ... «Mediaite, Jul 15»
A Graphic Novel Draws On Hip-Hop's Earliest Days For Inspiration …
Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker is an unusual piece of literature in that a medium usually reserved for fantastical tales and superheroes ... «Ambrosia For Heads, Jul 15»
New Graphic Novel Details How NYC Gangs' Treaty Formed Hip-Hop
Part personal biography, part socioeconomic exposé, Ghetto Brother tells the story of "Yellow" Benjy Melendez, the Puerto Rican founder of the ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
You are a part of your 'ghetto' town or school
I'm not sure if I actually heard “We're so ghetto,” from anyone, but the word was definitely used to describe a campus and a city. It gave me a ... «Newton Daily News, Jul 15»
